The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDERYou have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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